Body-belt.



J. JACOBS.

BODY BELT.

APPLICATION HLED AUG-2, ms.

Patented. Oct. 22, 1918.

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JOSEPH JACOBS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE LlIVE LEATHER BELT COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BODY-BELT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patentedflctp 22, HMS.

Original application filed. June 30,1915, Serial No. 37,161. Divided and this application filed August 2, 1916. Seria1No.112,646.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Josnrn JAooBs, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, county of Bronx, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Body-Belts, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying draw ings, forming a part of the same.

The invention of this application, which is a division of an application filed by me June 30, 1915, Serial No. 37161, relates to improvements in elastic leather body belts, that is to say, composite belts for personal wear consisting of or comprising superposed strips of leather and elastic material so combined that the belt will yieldingly' encircle and engage the waist of the wearer.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a detail, in cross section, of a composite belt embodying the present invention; 7

Fig. 2 is a detail, in cross section, of the leather layer of the belt with a strip of elastic webbing thereon, before the edges of the leather layer are folded over the elastic webbing layer; and

Fig. 3 is a front view of the completed belt, in its contracted condition.

Referring to said drawing, the composite belt shown therein as'embodying the present invention consists of two superposed layers A, B, united together, by means of cement and pressure as heremafter de-.

scribed, so that the outer layer B will inclose and. serve as a casing for the inner layer.

,-For reasons which will be hereinafter stated the outer layer or casifig Bis leather, while the inner layer is elastic Webbing. By elastic webbing I mean the material known commercially by that name and consisting of a textile fabric generally woven or knitted and containing india rubber strands or threads which are combined with suitable strands of flexible fibrous material, such, for example, as wool, cotton, hemp, linen or the like. In practice it is advisable that elastic webbing selected for the manufacture of the beltbe manufactured in a continuous web of the proper width for the belt, since the outer layer or casing A aroundthe selvage edges of the elastic webbing.

The belt is made and the two layers A,

one edge 011 the opposite side. This will be clear from Fig. 2. Generally that side of the leather strip which is to be inside the belt has'its two edges skived or chamfered,

while the side which is to be outside has only one edge ohamfered.

The leather strips thus prepared are cemented together end to end toform a long web of leather, from which several belts may be cut. That side of the leather which is to be inside the belt is coated with a suitable adhesive composition, and most advantageously with a rubber cement, which is allowed to set or dry to a condition where it is tacky. The ohamfered portion of the outside of the leather Web is also provided with a coating of adhesive material such as above described. Where the outer surface of the leather web is colored, for example, black or tan, the adhesive applied to its chamfered edge portion is colored with suitable coloring material, so'that the chamfered portion when coated with adhesive will have the same color as the remaining somewhat less than the width of the con.

pleted belt is stretched to the desired extent and laid against the central portion of the inside of the leather web. The two sides of the leather web are then folded over the elastic webbing the sides of the leather overlapping each other to the extent of the skiving or chamfering of the edges, whereby a scarfed joint is formed longitudinally of the belt and along thecentral line of that side of the belt which is to be next the wearer.

The long composite web thus formed is now submitted to a heavy pressure, whereby the joined edges of leather are pressed into close contact with and firmly secured to each other, while at the same time the adhesive inside of the leather is firmly united to the elastic webbing.

' After the leather and elastic webbing have been thus united, the tension on the elastic webbing is released. Owing to the firm attachment of the elastic webbing to the inside of the leather in which the Webbing is incased, the release of the tension on the elastic webbing permits the latter to contract longitudinally and thereby contract the. leather casing to the same extent. Because of its greater length over that of a the elastic webbing, in the latters contracted condition, the leather strip will be cri'mped or corrugated transversely in contracting with the webbing, so that in a given length of the composite web there will be a greater length of leather than of elastic webbing when the latter is contracted.

The product of these operations is a long web of composite elastic material comprising a central flat core of elastic webbing entirely inclosed in and firmly combined with a casing of leather, the elasticity of the composite web being due to the fact that owing to the crimps, corrugations or rugosities of the leather strip, in its contracted condition, the latter can be extended to the full extent to which the elastic webbing itself may properly be stretched. Furthermore, the leather prevents the elastic webbing from being stretched to such an-extent as would weaken such webbing.

The long composite web is now out into body belt lengths and these lengths are finished in the usual way to provide a belt as, for example, by forming a tongue at one end and attaching a buckle and tongue socket or slide at the other end, as shown,

the elastic webbing member is released and contracts, shorten with it and yet remain securely united to it. Owing to the adherence of the leather casing to the elastic webbing, it is impossible to strain the elastic material beyond the desired limit predetermined in the manufacture of the belt, because the amount to which the elastic web may be stretched in the completed belt is limited. by the extent to which the casing may be stretched and this is determined by the amount of surplus material of the casing taken up in the crimp's, convolutions or corrugations formed in the leather as it contracts with the elastic webbing.

. What I claim is:

1. A belt for body wear comprising a leather casing inclosing and cemented to a strip of elastic webbing, the length of leather in the casing being greater than that of the elastic webbing, in the unstretched condition of the latter.

2. A belt for body wear comprising a leather casing inclosing and cemented to a.

strip of elasticwebbing, with its edges overlapping and cemented together on the inner side of the belt, the length of leather in the casing being greater than that of the elastic webbing, in the unstretched condition of the latter.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

JosE moons. 

